- From: Glen Mazza <gmazza@apache.org>
- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:32:42 -0400
- To: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
Olivier Lefevre wrote: > > Subject says it all. Is there such a beast? Could be commercial or open > source. > I believe that would be defeating the purpose of using XSL/XSLT, which emphasizes declarative report or document generation over visual methods. Once a person gets used to this method, I can't imagine him/her wanting to go back to a WYSIWYG environment. Further, many of the benefits of XSLT, such as factoring out common formatting or template creation[1], would be much more difficult to realize in a WYSIWYG environment that generates the XSL FO for you. But I think the Eclipse BIRT project (business reporting tools) uses XSL internally while hiding that from the user, so that is a project you may wish to look at. Glen [1] http://xml.sys-con.com/read/40601.htm
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